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building phetch in a FreeBSD VM

(oddly specific...)

I found I could download a premade VM image for FreeBSD.

I grabbed it in qcow2 because I have the most practice with that format.

on the VM host:

linux$ wget https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/14.0-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2.xz
linux$ xz -d FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2.xz
linux$ qemu-system-amd64 -net nic -net user FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2
(start installing stuff and run out of space at rust)
linux$ qemu-img resize FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2 +5G
linux$ qemu-system-amd64 -net nic -net user FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2
(accidental ^C)
linux$ qemu-system-amd64 -net nic -net user FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2

on the VM guest:

freebsd# pkg install git
freebsd# pkg install rust
(ran out of space installing rust and had to expand the rootfs)
freebsd# gpart recover ada0
(I think that's what I did to get the gpt back to the end or something)
freebsd# gpart resize -i 4 ada0
freebsd# growfs /dev/gpt/rootfs
freebsd# pkg install rust
freebsd# mkdir -p /usr/local/src
freebsd# cd /usr/local/src
freebsd# git clone https://github.com/xvxx/phetch
freebsd# cd phetch
freebsd# make
(accidentallly ctrl+C the whole VM and had to restart the make)
freebsd# make
(fails because missing scdoc)
freebsd# pkg install scdoc
freebsd# make
(it works this time and hurray for incremental builds)

I kind of expected it to shit itself a bit more from qemu being killed.

Was really glad to find out I could expand the fs without needing to boot into a separate image.

The first few times I tried to resize the rootfs I was trying to target ada0p4 but was getting "Operation not Permitted"

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/growing-disks.76591/